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Hey guys,I couldn't find the questions thread, so I'm posting this here.1) What happens if you run out of diplomacy points? How do I get more?2) Just found out that you can only build new units in your home centers.

Would anyone like to play 3 unranked gunboats with me either here or on vdip? You don't need to partake in all three although I would appreciate it. Skill level can be anything from capt brad to SplitDiplomat. Only thing I'll be looking at is reliability.

I actually miss the lil bugger and this forum is a less enjoyable place without him. Can we discuss bringing him back as he was a good member for years and years and provided lots of humor and passionate debate.

In the typical form of her myth, Isis was the first daughter of Geb, god of the Earth, and Nut, goddess of the Sky, and she was born on the fourth intercalary day. She married her brother, Osiris, and she conceived Horus with him. Isis was instrumental in the resurrection of Osiris when he was murdered by Set.

Hello everyone,I'm looking to get a semi-anon, full-press, DSS game going. I'd like to set the RR level at 90%, to make sure we have people who don't miss turns, but would be willing to bring it lower if necessary. 60 or 120 would be ideal, but that is also open for change.

"The book suggests that some man-made events, such as the Iraq War, were undertaken with the intention of pushing through such unpopular policies in their wake"

Makes a change from the "it was all about oil" argument, I guess.

I've not read it, but from the wiki post you've supplied I can't help but feel that the emotional and physical distractions caused by events wouldn't be particularly useful at distracting from unpopular policies. The public aren't so single minded. Potential Brexit, economic trauma, and the refugee crisis weren't enough to distract the British public from being outraged by the death of Cecil the Lion.

Sure, if there's a lot in the news then some events may pass under the radar, but as long as there's an opposition and free press to highlight important developments then the public are perfectly capable of giving it whatever consideration they feel it needs.

Much harder to plan for, I'd say. Again, in a modern democracy there is the problem of the opposition and the free press to overcome, which are much harder to distract. There's also the time issue. A substantial change takes a substantial amount of time to pull off. A natural disaster can distract for a while, but I'd argue it'd be too short a distraction to have a chance of hiding anything significant.

In nations with a more authoritarian system, without an opposition or free press or other checks and balances, this may carry some weight. In western democracies it certainly is possible to hide small scale bad news events to some degree. But distracting the people, the press, and the opposition from major changes? That seems highly unlikely to me.

In a society without an opposition, there is little point in creating distractions, who are you distracting?

To take Naomi Klien's actual tweet from today: https://twitter.com/NaomiAKlein/status/906934791550980100

The kinds of thing you can get away with may be smaller for a natural disaster, and obviously this didn't distract Klein herself... But the majority of the media may be distracted. Not sure about the opposition (though since the republican party holds all powr in both the executive and legislative branches, i'm not sure how much opposition there is likely to be...)

I don't understand how this relates to the Shock Doctrine. Trump is in favour of cutting taxes. He always has been. He says it all the time. It seems he even says it when disasters are happening. It's not really using a natural disaster. It's carrying on with your campaigning in blind disregard for anything else.

In regards to opposition, UKIP have taught us that you don't need a lot of seats to have a significant impact and to keep the people alert to issues you believe are important. The UK Green Party are also examples of this.

As for Authoritarian regimes, if the Arab Spring taught us anything it's that even dictatorships can only function with the consent of the people.

We get it. You hate smart people and those who have made the effort to educate themselves. Scientists and scholars are so elite and are all prize idiots and are nothing compared to the brilliance of high school drop outs from the "heartland".

Would it be appropriate/allowable to have commentary on the biggest game of all time? I ask because it is an anon gunboat game. But it seems like the type of game people could learn from like school of war.